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Emerald Insight provides full-text access to various journals focusing on management and other subjects, available on and off campus. Users can utilize advanced search options, Boolean operators, and truncation to enhance their search effectiveness. Additional features include account creation for saving searches and setting up alerts for new journal issues.

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Emerald Insight Database Search Guide

Emerald Insight provides full-text access to various journals focusing on management and other subjects, available on and off campus. Users can utilize advanced search options, Boolean operators, and truncation to enhance their search effectiveness. Additional features include account creation for saving searches and setting up alerts for new journal issues.

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Emerald Insight
Emerald provides full-text access to MCB University Press journals. It focuses on all areas of
Management, but includes other subjects such as Computer Science, Education, Food & Nutrition,
Health, Built Environment and Civil Engineering.
This database is available on and off campus and may be accessed from Databases in the
Electronic Library at: [Link]

• Go to Discover, if prompted, Sign in with your LJMU username@[Link] and password


• Select the Databases option
• Type the name of the database in the search box
• Select the title and then the online link in the View Online box

Searching
Emerald defaults to the Basic Search screen (you may need to scroll down to see the search box)

we recommended you use the Advanced Search option

Search Tips

Boolean Operators
Boolean search operators: AND, OR and NOT, link your keywords together and enable you to
search more effectively:

• The term AND, will narrow a search to only find records which contain all search terms, for
example: leadership AND women

• The term OR, will widen a search to find records containing any of your alternative search
terms, but not necessarily all, for example: women OR female

• The term NOT, excludes part of a topic or specific terms from a search, for example: retail
NOT travel

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Exact word or phrases
You can search for an exact word or phrase of two or more words by surrounding it with
quotation marks. For example, if you type “women in leadership” in quotation marks this
ensures that the database only retrieves records where these words appear together as a
phrase.

Truncation
An asterisk is a truncation symbol that can be used after the first few characters of a word to
include all varying endings of that word in a search, for example:
lead* will find lead, leader, leadership, leading

Wildcards
The wildcard symbol * can be used within a word as a substitute for one or more characters
to account for differences in spelling, for example: wom*n will find women or woman

Alternative Search Terms


If you are struggling to find information on a given topic – try changing your search terms to
include alternative keywords, for example: “Human Resources” could also be HR

Search Limits
You can narrow the focus of your search and reduce the size of your search result by
selecting one of the options under the heading Access, by selecting a particular date range
under Year or inputting a year range in the boxes or by Content Type.

Displaying Results
Results are displayed in batches of ten, you can change this to 20 or 50 and your search terms are
highlighted. Results can be sorted according to relevance or by year –newest or oldest first.
Full text items are automatically displayed for journal article. The results display the
bibliographical details such as author, title and publication details and a number of other options.

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• View Summary and detail - for more details such as the abstract (summary of the
document), keywords, design methodolody and findings
• HTML or Title - opens the full text to read on the screen
You will also have direct links, where possible, to the full text for items in the reference list.
You can check for access to full text for items without links using Discover or via Google
Scholar
• PDF - opens the full text PDF
• OpenURL- opens the record in Discover
Selecting the title display the article in full and offer more information, such as other articles that
you may find interesing, keywords to expand your search and the live links in the references list.

Print, Download, Save and Export


Open the PDF to print or download the article, remember to check it has a proper name if you are
saving it.
To export select the title and scroll down to the Citation section, then select Download as .RIS

To export multiple citations, use the tick boxes next to the citations you wish to export, select the
Citations: download RIS link at the top of the search results.
An EmeraldInsight_citations RIS folder will be downloaded into your Downloads folder, open your
EndNote Online library and import the folder in.

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Additional features
Creating an account
To create an account in Emerald:

• select Logout on the toolbar


• select Login.
• Select Register here and complete the mandatory fields on the form

To access your account,


• select Login on toolbar and type in your details. in the Log in box
• select Profile, to open your account, alerts are listed on the main screen and saved
searches can be accessed via the option on the toolbar

Search Alerts and Save Searches


Once you have an account you can save searches and set up alerts:

• Search Alert: Emerald will “alert” you when a new issue of a journal is published.
To create an alert, you can either browse for a title or select the journal title from your
search results, then select the Subscribe to table of contents alerts link
• Save Searches: to save a search select the Save this search link to add a search to your
account.
To access your saved searches select Saved searches on the toolbar, when you open a saved
search it will automatically rerun and any new references that match your search criteria will
be shown.

Further Help
Further guidance is available from your Academic Engagement Librarian.

Guide created: August 2023


By: Jackie Fealey

Common questions

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Users can filter search results by relevance or year, displaying them in batches of 10, 20, or 50. Results can be refined by access type, date range, or content type. Additionally, the summary and details view can provide abstracts, keywords, and findings for deeper analysis .

The database offers direct links to full-text articles, with options for HTML or PDF formats. Users can view detailed bibliographical information, including abstracts and keywords, and access related articles and references through hyperlinks, supporting comprehensive research .

Users can export citations by selecting the title, scrolling to the Citation section, and downloading as a .RIS file. Multiple citations can be exported simultaneously using tick boxes, facilitating streamlined import into EndNote for efficient bibliographic management .

Articles can be viewed in HTML or PDF formats. Users can open the PDF to print or download while ensuring proper naming conventions for saved files. Additionally, the platform allows viewing summaries and full-text details on-screen for in-depth reading .

Users can narrow search results by setting filters such as access type, specific date ranges, or content type like journal articles. This focused approach ensures users retrieve more relevant and manageable sets of information .

'Search Alerts' notify users about new publications in their field of interest. By subscribing to journal alerts, researchers remain updated with the latest developments, thus enhancing their ongoing research and academic engagement .

When specific search terms yield limited results, researchers can improve outcomes by substituting keywords with synonyms or related terms. For instance, 'Human Resources' could be replaced with 'HR'. This strategy diversifies the scope of information retrieval .

Creating an account involves selecting 'Register here', completing a form, and logging in with those details. Benefits include personalized features like setting up search alerts, saving searches, and accessing saved content easily, enhancing user experience and research efficiency .

Boolean operators such as AND, OR, and NOT are used to refine search results. AND narrows the search to include records containing all search terms. OR broadens the search to include any of the alternative terms. NOT excludes specific terms from the search .

Truncation uses a symbol like * after the initial characters of a word to include all possible endings of that word, allowing for broader search results. Wildcards substitute one or more characters within a word to account for variations in spelling, enhancing the flexibility of searches .

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